Comparison

Tunable vs Precise Strobe Tuner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tunable

This app is a comprehensive music practice tool for musicians of all levels. It offers a chromatic tuner, tone and chord generator, metronome, and recorder to help users play in tune, on beat, and steadily. It provides feedback on playing habits and visual aids for pitch and rhythm.

Highlights
  • Chromatic tuner with pitch history
  • Tone and chord generator
  • Accurate metronome with visual display
  • Audio recorder with reverb
  • Practice feedback and scoring
  • Multiple tuning temperaments
Features
Currently charting
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Join more than a million musicians and improve your playing with Tunable - Music Practice Tools. More than a chromatic tuner, tone & chord generator, metronome, and recorder, Tunable is a music practice coach that can help you play steadily, in tune, and on beat anywhere you go. Jam-packed with features to help with ear training, breath support, rhythm, timing, and dynamics, Tunable is easy to use yet feature-rich. Tunable tracks your playing habits and gives feedback to help you improve. Equipped with a unique “tuning history” display for viewing pitch as you play, an easy to use metronome and a handy audio recorder, Tunable is the perfect toolkit for beginning to professional musicians. Grab Tunable today and use in your next practice session, group rehearsal, band class, or live performance. Why are Broadway musicians, students at Juilliard, National Youth Orchestras and beginning instrumentalists using Tunable? GET FEEDBACK ON HOW YOU PLAY • It's like a music instructor in your pocket. Record a practice session and get a practice score with note graphs to help summarize your playing. LEARN TO PLAY IN TUNE WITH SUSTAINED PITCH HISTORY™ • Visualize how steadily you play or sing. The straighter the white line, the more consistent the pitch. IMPROVE YOUR EAR WITH TONE AND CHORD GENERATOR • Use the tone and chord generator to play and sustain chords with various tone options. Toggle between different temperaments to hear how they compare. KEEP TEMPO WITH AN ACCURATE METRONOME • See the pulse with a visual metronome. View subdivision and current beat, with a large display and (optional) visual flash. RECORD YOUR SESSIONS AND SHARE WITH EASE • Record practices and performances. Add reverb for a professional sound. Share recordings with family, friends, and teachers. FEATURES OVERVIEW TUNER • Large, colorful tuning indicator clearly shows when in tune (green fills the screen) • Clear, visual tuner with note, octave, cents (+\-), and frequency (Hz) display • Sustained Pitch History™ tuning display to see how you’re sustaining notes over time • Especially suited for wind instruments, strings, and vocals with note detection from Tuba to Piccolo • Adjustable A=440 reference tone • Create your own or change between Equal, Just, Pythagorean, and 15 other tuning temperaments TONE AND CHORD GENERATOR • Chromatic Tone Generator and Full Piano with multiple tone options • Play and sustain single notes or chords • Continues playing when the screen is locked or in the background METRONOME • Large number display with optional visual flash to see the downbeat and each subdivision • Adjust tempo, beats per measure, and subdivision to fit your needs • Accent or mute individual subdivisions • Sync metronome to nearby devices so they run at the same tempo and in time (via Ableton Link) • Select from over 30 metronome sounds • Tempo Tap (tap metronome center to set a tempo) • Continues playing when the screen is locked or in the background RECORD PRACTICE SESSIONS • Record and save unlimited recordings • Receive a score and individual note graphs per recording • Organize recordings into folders • Search by name to find past recordings • Easily share recordings and practice scores • Playback recordings at 0x - 3x speed AND MORE • Transpose notes to any instrument • 15 Notations to choose from • AppleTV/AirPlay mirroring • Dark and light themes • Siri Shortcuts access to common tasks Tunable is especially great with voice, wind, and string instruments: • Guitar, Ukelele • Piccolo, Flute • Oboe, English Horn, Bassoon • Clarinet • Saxophone • Trumpet and Cornet • French Horn • Tenor and Bass Trombone • Euphonium and Tuba • Violin, Viola, Chello, and Bass • Voice TESTIMONIALS • "The best tuner, metronome, and recorder on iOS and a pitch-perfect bargain for any musician." — MacLife • "Tunable shows musicians what pitch-perfect means as they play." — Engadget • "Tunable doesn't just tell you how you sound -- it shows you." — FastCoDesign

About

Precise Strobe Tuner

Achieve perfect pitch with real strobe tuning technology, offering unmatched accuracy for a variety of instruments. Its bright, easy-to-read display is ideal for dark performance venues, and it supports custom and alternative tunings.

Highlights
  • Genuine strobe tuning technology
  • Automatic pitch detection
  • Intelligent noise filter
  • Unmatched low-frequency accuracy
  • Bright, easy-to-read display
  • Multiple tunings supported
  • No ads
Features
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Experience the ultimate precision and accuracy in tuning your instrument with StroboPro, leveraging harmonics-tracking technology and a bright, easy-to-read display. Move beyond "simulations" and embrace the authenticity of harmonic tracking with StroboPro. Start your tuning journey with our straightforward cents display to get close to the perfect pitch, then use the strobes to dial it in. Features that Set Us Apart: - Independent harmonics: captures and displays each individual harmonic of your instrument, with each strobe tracking an individual harmonic. Display up to 10 visible harmonics at once for a complete picture of your tone. - Dynamic, high-contrast, high-fps display. - Automatic Pitch Detection: StroboPro detects pitch effortlessly, ensuring your instrument is perfectly in tune. - Intelligent Background Noise Filter: Achieve a flawless tuning experience as unwanted noise is intelligently eliminated. - Built-in Pitch Pipe: Generate reference tones for ear training or quick tuning checks, with a Sine waveform (includes a harmonics mode). - Unmatched precision and accuracy for low-frequency notes, ideal for low-frequency instruments like piano and bass. - Supports numerous guitar tunings including dropped tunings, 4-string, 5-string, 6-string, and more. - Piano Tuning Assistant (Beta): Measure the unique inharmonicity of your piano and generate custom tunings for a perfect stretch across the entire keyboard. - Share Custom Tunings: Send your custom tunings to other musicians via a simple link. - Echo Mode: Audio-first tuning guidance designed for visually impaired users. The app listens for your pitch and plays a guiding tone to the target. - Accessibility built in: a large, high-contrast display, full screen-reader/VoiceOver labels on every control, and Echo Mode for hands-free, audio-first tuning. - Note locker lets you dial in filtering for a specific note and each individual harmonic, even in noisy environments. What Musicians Say: "I retired my Korg tuner after I got this app. I've tried many other tuner apps and this is the best." — Steel Guitar Player "Finally a tuner that doesn't suck! A modern interface. Precise. It just opens the tuner directly without any ads." — Leonardo M "This tuner is certainly the best one you can get on the market. I've tried quite a few, this is my go-to, I couldn't get along without it." — Bruce C. "I am pro piano tuner and had many tuner softwares. This is so far the most clean and neat interface I have ever seen. Some software cost almost one thousand dollars but ugly old interface." — Tony Z, Pro Piano Tuner "I've been playing guitar since I was eight. I am now 69. I love this tuner." — Gazorbo We Value Your Opinion Your feedback and reviews are crucial to making StroboPro one of the best tuning apps for musicians on iOS. Privacy: We don't collect your data. Period. LEGAL: - Privacy Policy: https://strobopro.se/privacy.html - Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: support@applicaudia.se Website: strobopro.se

Screenshots

Tunable4 screens
Precise Strobe Tuner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Precise Strobe Tuner at Free against Tunable's $7.99. Tunable's advantage is ratings volume (6.8K vs 83) and chart position (#20 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Precise Strobe Tuner is free to download; Tunable costs $7.99 up front. Tunable sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Precise Strobe Tuner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Tunable against 4.8 for Precise Strobe Tuner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tunable has 6.8K ratings behind it against 83, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Tunable's written reviews are positive against 83% of Precise Strobe Tuner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tunable ships an update every 5 days, Precise Strobe Tuner weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Tunable versus Precise Strobe Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTunablePrecise Strobe Tuner
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (6.8K ratings)4.8 (83 ratings)
Positive reviews87.3% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings6.8K — better83
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#20 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAffinityBlueApplicaudia AB

Customer experience

Tunable

All ratings6,799 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews432 reviews
Positive87.3%
Neutral3.5%
Negative9.3%

Precise Strobe Tuner

All ratings83 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Bugs and requests

Tunable

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Tuning function not working correctly on some devices
  • Microphone issues causing tuner to not detect input

Requested features

4 requests
  • Custom temperament options
  • Ability to disable microphone access
  • Larger font size options
  • Customizable metronome sounds

Precise Strobe Tuner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Tunable

One-time4
  • Donut for Seth$0.99
  • Coffee for Seth$2.99
  • Burrito for Seth$7.99
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  • Pizza for Seth$11.99
3 purchases

Precise Strobe Tuner

Subscriptions2
  • Unlock Premium Features$1.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium for lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is Tunable free?
Tunable costs $7.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Precise Strobe Tuner free?
Precise Strobe Tuner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tunable or Precise Strobe Tuner?
Tunable and Precise Strobe Tuner are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6.8K and 83 ratings respectively.
Do Tunable or Precise Strobe Tuner have ads?
Neither Tunable nor Precise Strobe Tuner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tunable or Precise Strobe Tuner?
Tunable ships an update every 5 days, and Precise Strobe Tuner weekly. Most recently, Tunable was updated on September 24, 2026 and Precise Strobe Tuner on September 17, 2026.

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